TSC IS LYNCHING CHICKENS!

[ChickenCanoe]

It should be

Yes it should.
Good help is hard to find. It is a good labor market in most of the country right now. When I first retired, jobs were few and far between. Now I could probably have my choice of jobs.
I have a feed store just up the road from me. One of the employees has chickens and ducks. I think the manager grew up with chickens. That said, neither one of them knows squat about chickens.
That store keeps feed and other product till it sells no matter how old it gets. I don't even bother stopping there for feed or any products that expire any more. I have to cross the river and drive to another state where there is a TSC and a Farm & Home across the street from each other. They both make and effort to rotate stock rotate stock and they have a much better selection at much better prices. Their employees knowledge doesn't impress me. I overhear them giving advice that is wrong and sometimes I can't help myself but to intervene. I've been teaching poultry and associated classes for 10 years.
It is a shame that the store 5 minutes from my house only carries starter and layer (about $3 a bag higher than the other stores) and the starter is only fresh in the spring.
So I have to travel an hour round trip for a good selection and good prices on fresh food.

 

[Kusanar]

I think it is clear that actual knowledge of poultry, or any livestock for that matter, is not a requirement for employment at a feed store.

Absolutely, I helped a lady out at TSC not long ago, her horse had sore feet and she was told to get a product (can't remember the name now) but she was asking for the active ingredient, she is a nurse and probably does what I tend to do and checks active ingredients so you can get a comparable product, but the worker had no idea, I recognized the ingredient, knew it was typically used to toughen the bottoms of horses feet, and asked her what problem she was trying to treat and got her pointed in the right direction. All the worker knew was they didn't have anything called that on the shelf, didn't know it wasn't a product name and didn't know what it was used to treat.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

....I got my hardware and asked him if they still had the cases of "sailboat fuel" on sale out in the Garden Center. He wasn't sure, so I asked if he'd please check with his manager while I waited. He did! I wish I could have waited for the follow-up, but I snuck out before I fell on the floor, laughing. He was so serious!

Pssst!
Many(most) keel style sail boats have motors and use fuel

 

[WhoDatChick]

Waymaninit! (DS's "Wait a minute!") The first year got 10% right out of two poults. Is this another of those "5 out of 4 people have trouble with Math" statistics?

Waymaninit!! ... I love it! That is so stinkin cute!!

 

[WhoDatChick]

The t.s.c.here has a big sign advising that only employees are allowed to handle chicks and to ask for help. They also have a security rail around the chick bins. I wish all stores had that policy. In fact I once mentioned that to the manager at the local feed mill here and they did institute that policy too. Most stores have signs asking people not to allow their children to handle chicks. Anyway point being it's not just Tsc. It's pretty much any store that sells them. You just have to evaluate the store before you buy. I dont buy chicks from t.s.c. because I think the chicks just go through too much stress with shipping and handling etc. We buy from our local feed mill or usually from the local hatchery..where we can go ourselves and pick them up directly.

Our local TSC does the same.. no one can handle the chicks except employees... good policy!
Just want to add.. I have gotten 8 of my 16 chickens from TSC and I have been very satisfied... they are happy, healthy, beautiful gals... correct on breed and gender!

 

[Chickassan]

I get TSC is staffed by people that have no idea what they're doing.
As long as you know what you're doing though you should be fine...right?
If you don't gtfo of TSC, go home, educate yourself and go back when you know what you're doing.
Easy peasy and better for your blood pressure.

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

I get TSC is staffed by people that have no idea what they're doing.
As long as you know what you're doing though you should be fine...right?
If you don't gtfo of TSC, go home, educate yourself and go back when you know what you're doing.
Easy peasy and better for your blood pressure.

Lol, so true, my dad says the same about O’Reilly’s, he corrected the guy so many times he left and went to another parts store who could actually help him.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

....As long as you know what you're doing though you should be fine...right?
If you don't gtfo of TSC, go home, educate yourself and go back when you know what you're doing.
Easy peasy and better for your blood pressure.

Amen!

I run into the same thing in about any retail store...

Here’s another little hint for all the folks that get upset about the lack of deep knowledge demonstrated by the teenage kid working at their local store for minimum wage or close to it:

I like to preface my questions with: “hey I’ve gotta quick question for you... and if you don’t know, no worries, but I’m trying to find....”

Most times they’ll say “gee I don’t know, let me go ask” or something like that... but by giving them a chance to say I don’t know, they don’t feel put on the spot and it tends to keep them from guessing, and wasting your time, etc.

Talk to one of these people and I bet they have some wild stories about all the crazy chicken people they have to deal with at any given moment the doors are open

 

[MROO]

Our local TSC does the same.. no one can handle the chicks except employees... good policy!
Just want to add.. I have gotten 8 of my 16 chickens from TSC and I have been very satisfied... they are happy, healthy, beautiful gals... correct on breed and gender!

Ours is pretty good, too, actually, but we're in a smallish rural town with an Ag program at the local high school. That translates into a pool of farm-friendly kids as potential employees - and most of 'em want to work at TSC ... for the discount!

 

[MROO]

Pssst!
Many(most) keel style sail boats have motors and use fuel

I know that ... and you know that ... but I can virtually guarantee that Junior didn't. And I did specify, "for the sails!"